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I am running Remote Desktop to connect from my iMac with Snow Leopard to a Windows box at work that runs Windows 7 Professional. The connection is done over ssh.

When logged in to the window box I can use Alt + Tab to switch between programs, I can also see that when using emacs pressing Alt registers as Meta (which is what I have set it up as). However if I want to type a @ which on my Swedish keyboard is Alt + 2 nothing happens. The same is true for { and [ and so on.

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Does ⌘ + alt + 2 work? This is a combination for @ in bootcamp.

For the other keys:

  • ⌘ + alt + 7 to get {
  • ⌘ + alt + 0 to get }
  • ⌘ + alt + 8 to get [
  • ⌘ + alt + 9 to get ]
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No unfortunately it does not work. I can do ctrl + alt + 2 to get "@" but since ctrl + alt collides with other keyboard mappings I would much rather have it work with just alt + 2. – Mingus Rude Dec 1 '11 at 8:07
Did you try AltGr+2? – kinokijuf Dec 1 '11 at 9:03
I think alt + ctrl maps to AltGr since there is no AltGr on the Mac keyboard. However, pressing ctrl + alt interferes with other commands in some programs, like using alt as meta in emacs. – Mingus Rude Dec 1 '11 at 9:20
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You could use the character palette.

System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard tab Check "Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar" (If necessary, press Input Sources... and enable Keyboard & Character Viewer)

Then open the Character Viewer from the menu bar, locate the character you need, and double-click it to insert it.

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That is one solution it's just that it is very very slow. – Mingus Rude Dec 1 '11 at 9:20
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Perhaps you could set up another keystroke to produce @ via system preferences/language & text/text/symbol and text substitution.

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